Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Musings in the Wake of Orlando

First, let’s not use his name again as some may use it to acknowledge a martyr. Referring to him as a dog or maybe just “Dog” is more appropriate. (Dog-lovers should bear in mind that, in Islam, to be compared to a dog is about the worst and most degrading insult.)
During the last 48 hours we’ve all heard descriptions, excuses and explanations to describe the murdering, wack-job shooter. Home grown extremism, radicalized, inspired by, directed by; does it really matter what when where or how? There is only one common theme, Radical Islam. What more needs to be said. However; I suggest the term Radical Islam is inadequate to describe those people. Radical Islam is a term mainstreamed from the Political Correctness dictionary. Merriam-Webster defines radical as: very new and different from what is traditional or ordinary; very basic and important; having extreme political or social views that are not shared by most people. By definition, those people have gone way beyond radical. While not a word in the English language, maybe we can create a derivative of the word genocide and call those people Genocidary Islam. Other terms are welcomed. Maybe deviant will work.
Those people have a history of attacking the west for the purpose of imposing their sick religious beliefs upon those they defeat. For the surviving society, they must conform and convert to Islam or die. In 732 the Franks (French) soundly defeated the Umayyad (Muslim) army as they attempted to invade Western Europe from Spain. In 1683 The Battle of Vienna took place. Vienna, known as the gateway to Europe was besieged by the 140,000 strong Muslim Ottoman Turks army. The city would have fallen if not for Polish army arriving to reinforce the defending army. The Ottoman Turks were decisively defeated and withdrew. The Turks never recovered from this battle, while the Ottoman Empire survived for another two hundred plus years, from here onwards it was merely a holding action. This victory freed Europe from the Ottoman Turks and their invasions and secured Christianity as the main religion in all of Europe.
Lost in history are the actions the Europeans took to prevent other invasion attempts. It is important to know Christianity was never spread at the point of the sword, and conversions to Christianity were never effected at the pain of death. But when the Muslim invaders were rolled back after a few centuries of occupation, the Christian re-conquistadors both in Spain and in the Balkans, followed a pragmatic policy of taking the war to the civilian Muslim population (many of whom were originally Christian) to either embrace Christianity, or leave the Christian lands, or to be put to the sword.
This ruthless European policy ensured that there remained no hostile population in the liberated Christian lands, who would betray the Christian army or in peacetimes sabotage the nation by acting as a Muslim fifth column in Christendom. Today the situation is reversed with the large and ever growing Muslim populations in Europe and the USA. Today’s rulers have forgotten the enlightened policy of our forebears of the days of the Reconquista and the Crusades. An enemy is an enemy, regardless of whether he is in the armed forces of the enemy’s military or is loyal to the enemy by reason of being a co-religionist. Thus an enemy civilian is also an enemy. This is the harsh reality that we Americans and Europeans need to face.
The Kumbaya Chorus wants to believe those people just need a job or to be understood, or just reason with them, or, or, or. The reality is those people’s only goal is to convert the World, not just the Middle-East to their version of Islam. Those who don’t denounce their own religion and convert are considered infidels. Infidel females are raped, sold into slavery, stoned to death and otherwise brutally murdered. The men, caged, burnt alive, crucified, thrown off buildings and the fortunate few spared a torturous death by beheading. Those people are living with 14th Century beliefs. To think they can be mainstreamed or brought into the 21st Century is Pollyanna. The only solution is relentless military action. As in Vienna the forces of the modern world must come together to purge the parasite into extinction